Icann Names Twomey as CEO

Updated March 20, 2003 1:58 am ET

The international oversight body for Internet domain names has named its first non-American chief executive. Australian Paul Twomey will replace Stuart Lynn on March 27 as day-to-day manager of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (www.icann.org). Mr. Twomey will be the third president and chief executive of an organization often criticized as being U.S.-centric. Mr. Twomey is managing director of Argo Pacific, an Internet consulting company in Australia. Previously, he was a telecommunications and financial services consultant with McKinsey & Co. From 2000-2002, Mr. Twomey also was chairman of Icann's...